Garment-supporting belt.



No. 875;973. PATENTED JAN. 7.. 1-908. F. 0. WOOD. GARMENT SUPPORTING BELT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11, 1905.

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Y A TTORNEY' FRANO O; WOOD, OF SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan; 7, 1908.

Application and November 11.1905. Serial No. 2873749;

. pen' d-"suc h articles from the waist of the wearer, without compression of the waist,

such as that which is experienced when wear-' irig Waist belts sucheas hitherto have been used for holding uptrousers and-drawers without ordinary shoulder braces or suspenders.

My said invention is also ap licable for suspending and fastening roun the waist,

articles of wearing apparel worn by women,

and without compression such as is due to the methods or means of fastening at the waist, female wearing apparel at present used My invention consistsof a flat belt or band of such length as is requisite for encompassing the clothes of the wearer at the waist region of the abdominal portion of the human body, and it is provided with fastenings at j each end thereof for enabling the ends to be en aged with or disengaged from each other. at constitutes my invention is the 1 application to the inner flat face of a belt or hand of one, two, or more hooks, whereinto a strap usually constituting a tightening device at the center of the rear of a pair of trousers, and some kinds of skirts, is entered ,or passed, so thatthe strap is held or supd t e ported vertically flatwise at the rear, an application to the inner flat face of the belt or band, and near the ends thereof, of suspending loops which engage with the buttons at the front and sides of the articles of Wearing apparel being worn.

On the annexed drawings, Figure 1, is

ail elevation of my improved belt or band,

showing hooks at the rear for engaging with the strap of the trousers, or other article of Wearing apparel, and the suspending loops for engaging with the buttons at the front and side parts of the trousers or other article of wearing apparel to be worn suspendedly,

and without inconvenient abdominal comression by my said im roved belt or band. ig. 2, is an enlarged or ll sized detail drawing of one form of construction of the fastener,

laced on and fastened to the interior of the elt. This fastener is made of metallic wire. Fig. 3, is a corresponding viewof the fastener shown at 'Fi 2, with the difference that instead of being formed of wire, the fastener shown at Fig. 3, is formed of a flat piece of leather, vulcanite, thin metal, or any other suitable material. Fig. 4, is anelevation of a part of the interior face of the belt or band, showing one of the rear fastening hooks and a ortion of the rear tightening belt of a pair of trousers placed therein. Fig. 5, is a transverse section of the belt and fastener on the dotted line a, a, Fig. 4. Fig. 6, is a front elevation of a portion of the abdominal region and legs of the human body, showing my new or improved belt or band applied thereto for the fastening and suspension around the waist, and without compression, by my new or improved belt or band. Fig. 7, is a rear elevation of a portion of the abdominal region and legs of the human body, showing the rear tightening belt of the trousers placed in the hooks at the rear of the trousers or other article of wearing apparel.

.VVith reference to the foregoing drawings, the belt or band itself is marked A. At one end thereof, the buckle B, is fastened by sewing or riveting, or otherwise, and at the other end holes C, are formed for engaging with the tag D, of the buckle, when the belt orband is fastened around the human body for the purpose of suspending the article or articles of wearing apparel to.be attached thereto. At or near the center of length. of the inside face of the belt or band A, the hooks E, E, are fastened, as shown at Figs. 1,' 4, and 5, and at those portions of the inner face of the said belt or band situated between the central rear portion and the ends of the bolt, the wire loops F, F, F, F, are fastened, as shown at Fig. 1, and at Fig. 2. By'preference these hooks F, F, F, F, are each constructed with two loops, 0, c, and there are two pairs of such fastenings F, at each end of the belt or band, as shown at Fig. 1. The object for placing two of each of the loop fastenings F, at each end of the inner face of the belt or band, is to render easy the entry of the buttons shown in dotted lines marked G, and H, res ectively, at Figs. 2 and 3, also shown dotte on a smaller scale at Fig. 6. I

By providing such number of loops C, the

, monly known and 'used, may be used instead "of the fastening illustrated by the annexed apparel are :slipped downwards into v the A; and the fastening F, Figs. 1 and 2', or into 'tial to use a buckle and fastening holes for joining the ends of the'belt or band, as any buttons G; and H, fastened to the wearing space between the leather of the belt or band the corresponding loops in the fastening of different material, shown at Fig. 3. It is to be understood that'it. is not essenof the numerous. othervbelt fasteners comdrawings; 1 7

I Having-now described'the nature of my sai'd invention, and the best system, mode or 1 manner I- a'rn at present acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I desire to observe in conclusion that what I consider to; bGIlOVfi. and original, and therefore claim asthe inivention to be secured to meby Letters Patent, is as. follows:

, The wearing apparel abdominal suspending device, consisting of the combination of a flat flexible belt or band having rear attachments of upturned hooks and lateral-frontal attachments each consisting of rigid duplex looped engagers for the buttons between the front and rear of. the belt or band, the front attachments having two entrances at the top thereof, the rear and front attachments being arranged 'sothat they respectively engage with the rear strap and buttons at the fronts and sides of trousers and other articles of wearing apparel, and being rigidly constructed and fastened preventing horizontal sliding movement of the buttons so that one I or more articles of wearing apparel may besuspended upon-the abdominal region of the human body without compression of the abdomenfsubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I, the said FRANC 0. W001), have hereunto set my hand and seal at. Los Angeles aforesaid, in the presence of two subscribing'witnesses.

FRANO 'O; W'OOD. [L. s;] Witnesses; ST. JOHN DAY,

J. D. CORY. 

